Video conferencing is being added by Telstra as part of their enterprise and government offerings, reports IT News. This makes me think that Telstra has to also be taking a very close look at consumer grade video conferencing services (possibly ooVoo or SightSpeed) to roll out as well.
Ribbit has launched their new platform at Adobe Max today. Mashable has the details. My take: Open platforms are becoming more and more the new way of doing business. Open networks on the other hand don’t yet exist really, other than the public internet. While carriers “speak” open, they really are not that “open.” And … Read more
My colleague, valley legend and master of the message, Bill Ryan, calls the what we do, “groom to flip” and the New York Times has the state of the industry pegged perfectly when they wrote up the recent VAPPS acquisition of by Citrix. Nowadays companies that are venture backed are no longer IPO candidates that … Read more
This week is a busy week, and there’s no relief in sight. That’s a good thing as this Wednesday and Thursday in San Francisco is the Open Mobile Summit. It’s really shaping up to be something of interest to me, as the idea of Open seems to have many definitions. It’s sort of like “unlimited.”
Over in London I enjoy staying in the Andaz, a hotel property of Hyatt that was designed by the famed Terrance Conran. It’s a converted hospital less than a 100 yards from Liverpool Street Station. At the Andaz I get free coffee, free laundry for essentials, refreshed water, free broadband and a few other perks. … Read more
Over in London I enjoy staying in the Andaz, a hotel property of Hyatt that was designed by the famed Terrance Conran. It’s a converted hospital less than a 100 yards from Liverpool Street Station. At the Andaz I get free coffee, free laundry for essentials, refreshed water, free broadband and a few other perks. … Read more
Motorola is clearly not just thinking about cellular phones these days. They’re busily moving into a full blown WiFi VoIP handset that works with a very robust server and lots of security features.
Mr. Mashup 3.0 Thomas Howe was in the room. Alec Saunders, the man who gave us Internet Explorer and now is pushing the envelope to enable active conversations with Calliflower was there. Frederik and Paul of Jajah were there too, as was Dr. Don Thorson and a few of his Ribbiteers from Ribbit. Dan York … Read more
My longtime blogger buddy, who I always have said is one of the smartest engineers I know has launched his dream, enthinnai and he’s looking for feedback.
Yesterday client Boingo acquired OptiFi, another aggregator/operator of airport hotspots, much like Boingo’s Concourse Communications purchase, and their buy of Sprint’s airport hotspot division. The timing couldn’t be better as one well regarded wireless analyst firm I follow closely has indicated that the rollout of WiMax won’t be as fast as people expected, and I … Read more
